Es gibt eine Limit ab dem die Angst vor einem Gefängnisaufenthalt nicht mehr den Schmerz des normalen Lebens überwiegt für so manche Leute. Wenn das passiert dann wirds lustig. Die Lösung des Staats dafür ist dann immer mehr Überwachung und Polizeigewalt zur Abschreckung. Cory Doctorow hat da sehr schön drüber geschrieben in Surveillance is inequality’s stabilizer

Hier ein Ausschnitt:

Spying is part of a broader class of activities called “guard labor” – anything you might pay someone to do that results in fewer guillotines being built on your lawn. Guard labor can be paying someone to build a wall around your estate or neighborhood. It can be paying security guards to patrol the wall. It can be paying for CCTV operators, or drone operators. It can be paying for surveillance, too.

Guard labor isn’t free. The pitch for guard labor is that it is a cheaper way to get social stability than the alternative: building schools and hospitals, paying a living wage, lowering prices, etc. It follows that when you make guard labor cheaper, you can build fewer schools and hospitals, pay lower wages, and raise prices more, and buy more guard labor to counter the destabilizing effect of these policies, and still come out ahead.